emergybased
Emergy is a concept used in ecological economics to measure the total environmental work or energy required to produce any good or service. It is a unit of embodied energy that accounts for all energy transformations throughout the production process, from raw material extraction to final product delivery. Emergy is expressed in units of "emergy joules" or "sej." The emergy concept emphasizes that all forms of energy, regardless of their quality or origin, have a certain transformity, which is the ratio of emergy to energy. This allows for the comparison and integration of diverse energy sources and environmental impacts within a single framework.
Emergy analysis aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the environmental loading associated with human activities
The emergy concept has been applied to a wide range of studies, including the assessment of agricultural